...The Justia’s chief executive, Tim Stanley, told CNET today that some citations were mangled because of a programmer's error, not an effort to rewrite history.
“This has nothing to do with President Obama and it is not a conspiracy,” Stanley said. “When we discovered the issue, we corrected the script and the cases now render correctly. The issue was not limited to the cases these folks are focused on. We've had internal discussions on how to make sure this does not happen in the future with additional visual and parsing checks.”.....
....Stanley said he wasn't sure how many cases were affected before the bug was discovered and fixed. “It was just the U.S. Supreme Court cases, not the state, federal appellate and district court cases,” he said. ....
Must be a coincidence?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20124882-281/was-legal-site-rewrite-a-liberal-plot-not-quite/
ping to you and Leo, although I am sure you have seen the CNET article. At least if fairly presents Leo’s interpretation of Minor v Happersett (except for saying that the court implied rather than held the definition of NBC...).